User:James Kessler QC

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Hello, you've reached James Kessler's homepage. I've a real website, http://www.kessler.co.uk , if you want to find out more about me.

I'm a tax barrister in Lincoln's Inn, and in general I only edit pages that are within my professional spectrum. I've made major edits to Foundations, to Charity and to Tax avoidance and tax evasion for example.

I read Akkadian and Hebrew in Oxford, back in the '80s. There I met my beautiful wife, Jane.

I am also the author of three books - Taxation of Foreign Domiciliaries [1], Taxation of Charities [2] and Drafting Trusts & Will Trusts [3]- the last, I'm proud to say, is the father of six daughter books, Drafting Trusts & Will Trusts in Australia [4], Drafting Trusts & Will Trusts in Canada [5], Drafting Cayman Island Trusts [6], Drafting Trusts & Will Trusts in the Channel Islands [7], Drafting Trusts & Will Trusts in Northern Ireland [8] and Drafting Trusts & Will Trusts in Singapore [9].

Oh yes, and I'm also a proud father. Feel free to leave a message.


Pedantry[edit]

I like to consider myself Chairman of the London Apostrophe Society. All my family the other members unanimously voted me in.

LE-0This individual still maintains a shred of dignity in this insane world by adhering to correct spelling, grammar, punctuation and capitalisation.
“,;:’This user is a punctuation stickler.
A, B, and
A and B
This user prefers to use the serial comma only when its omission can be confusing.
’sThi's user know's that not every word that end's with s need's an apostrophe and will remove misused apostrophe's from Wikipedia with extreme prejudice.
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too
two
This user thinks that too many people have no idea how to use words that they should have learned in grade two.
which & thatThis user knows how to use which and that correctly.
its & it'sThis user understands the difference between its and it's. So should you.
UKThis user uses British English.


Jeremiah Gurney
Jeremiah Gurney (1812–1895) was an American daguerreotype photographer. Initially working in the jewelry trade in Saratoga, New York, he took up photography after learning of daguerreotype from Samuel Morse, moving to New York City where he began selling photographs alongside jewelry. He was one of the earliest photographers in the city, and may have been the owner of the first photographic gallery in the United States. Gurney took this self-portrait photograph around 1869; it is now in the collection of the Minneapolis Institute of Art.Photograph credit: Jeremiah Gurney; restored by Adam Cuerden